Image Description: This is a commander for my new army of tau, but the main purpose of him is to represent my hero in upcoming arena of death tournament, we are planning next weekend (and that is the reason he has front and rear facing displayed on base).
Some fluff behind this army:
First I wanted my army to be realistic army styled group of soldiers and no classic tau transformer like army. So I selected a settle colour theme and a worn look of armour. Sept marking had to be in contrast, so I selected bright red. Then I was looking for a tau sept that can be represented by that marking and on the second hant its symbol should be easily converted from Tau one. I chosen red suns as most aggresive area in tau empire and as logo I used classic tau one but the dot meaning planet was painted red.
After some research I made up this story:
My tau army is a expedition sent to unnamed planet in area of red suns systems to establish a colony in there for future earth caste scientists and workers that could inhabit the planet.
After deplaying gound forces, huge ork fleet forced small tau expedition to retreat and all ground forces were considered Killed in action. But they were not. After they were abandoned, expedition started to build base and some fortifications to repel ork assaults.
In some time same expedition came from imperial side and they assaulted tau colony with great force. When orks find human presence on radar, their fleet totally wanished even imperial expeditions and landed down at planet where tau-human conflict was in climax.
Forced by ork immense mob they were forced to stop fighting and they allied in deffence. After conflict they found out that both sides were abondoned and they need to stay close to have any chance of surviving assaults of orks.
And this is how story of red suns colony started...
